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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what purpose is the U.S. military experimenting with implanting computer chips in the brains of soldiers?
(a) To lessen their fear during battle.
(b) To control soldiers remotely.
(c) To treat physical injuries sustained in battle.
(d) To treat patients suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome or PTSD.

2. What two types of abilities to humans have?
(a) Cognitive and behavioral.
(b) Cognitive and emotional.
(c) Physical and cognitive.
(d) Physical and sensory.

3. Harari claims that "life has no script, no playwright, no director, no producer, and ____________."
(a) No meaning.
(b) No free will.
(c) No power.
(d) No reality.

4. What life-changing experience did journalist Sally Adee have when she used a battlefield simulator?
(a) Her brain without self doubt.
(b) A change in her personality.
(c) An increased ability to learn.
(d) A life-like virtual reality experience.

5. Harari states that economic growth could be considered a religion because it provides solutions to which of life's dilemmas?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Ethical.
(c) Spirutual.
(d) Social.

6. What did scientists discover when they opened the proverbial Sapiens black box?
(a) Human experiences are random.
(b) Liberalism is a myth.
(c) There is no soul, no free will, and no self.
(d) Evolution influences experiences.

7. What did Daniel Kahneman's cold-water experiment prove?
(a) Humans do not remember painful experiences if it is followed by a reward.
(b) Water temperature can change sensory perception.
(c) Humans withdraw from pain.
(d) The existence of two different selves within humans.

8. The expression, "The customer is always right" is an example of humanist _____________.
(a) Economics.
(b) Politics.
(c) Ethics.
(d) Aesthetics.

9. What group of individuals are being held responsible for the potential reversal of the humanist revolution?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Computer geeks.
(c) Religious leaders.
(d) Biologists.

10. According to Harari, what is the only place where free will exists?
(a) Within a liberal government.
(b) In the theory of evolution.
(c) In religious beliefs.
(d) In our imaginary stories.

11. What revolutionary strategy did Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane use to select the best baseball players?
(a) He hacked the competition's database.
(b) He developed the system of player statistics.
(c) He posted information on Twitter.
(d) He used a computer algorithm developed by economists.

12. What is the title of Jorge Luis Borges' story about the narrating self?
(a) Quixote's Problem.
(b) A Problem.
(c) The Options.
(d) The Quixote Fantasy.

13. What movement changed the formula for gaining knowledge to Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics?
(a) Economic Growth.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The Free Market.
(d) The Scientific Revolution.

14. Evolutionary humanism is based on the theory of which philosopher?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) John Locke.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Charles Darwin.

15. The rise of humanism meant there was less focus on God and more focus on what?
(a) Technology.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Liberalism.
(d) Humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who famously declared that God is dead?

2. How are modern teenagers acquiring an understanding of capitalism?

3. The first Cognitive Revolution made Homo sapiens rulers of the planet. What could the Second Cognitive Revolution do?

4. What does Harari call the nemesis of the modern economy?

5. Why is research about the healthy mind questionable?

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